Tag: Privacy

WA ‘privacy lite’ data sharing bill back for debate

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Western Australian Parliament has been asked to consider changes to a signature public sector privacy and data sharing bill, amid criticisms that the proposed legislation delivers only “privacy...

Australia’s privacy tsar sets sights on AI training

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s privacy commissioner says the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is mulling regulatory action against a number of companies that are skirting privacy laws when developing artificial intelligence...

Vic child protection agency ordered to block GenAI tools

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Victoria’s privacy watchdog has ordered the state’s child protection agency to block access to generative AI tools on its network after a caseworker entered sensitive personal information into ChatGPT...

Social media giants are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Social media giants like Facebook and X are “vast surveillance” operations that collect, trade and hold troves of people’s data, the US consumer and competition watchdog has found after...

Meta dismisses AI scraping concerns as semantics

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Meta has defended its use of Australian users’ social media posts to train artificial intelligence without express consent, arguing that only publicly available data from its platforms is fed...

Data breaches hit three-year high: OAIC

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Serious data breaches are occurring at the highest rate in the last three and a half years, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, as it awaits...